We also need to take a hard look at how some routes are designed. Consider the 914 Jasper Place. It stops on the south side of 100 Avenue at 170 Street, then again on the south side of 100 Avenue at 168 Street. The driver then has to swing wildly across four lanes of traffic in order to make a...

Yes that's part of the problem--because tax dollars are going to incentivize particular services, taxpayers have a right to be extremely critical of any "results" achieved. If Airline X looks at passenger forecasts and projected cargo volume and decides on its own initiative and resources to...

Yeah it looks pretty amateur-hour.

True. Edmonton passengers feeding Pearson and YVR benefit those airports, but not at YEG's expense the way feeding YYC does. Furthermore I would argue that building up Pearson is a win for Canada as a whole. Canada is only large enough to have one really sizable global hub and that's always...

The Eurostar is excellent, but going Edmonton-London via Amsterdam raises the same backtracking issue we've been discussing.

Why on earth funds were used to establish this flight is beyond me. I can think of a dozen other cities where (re)establishing non-stop service should have been a higher priority. Chicago heads the list. Houston (UA hub), Dallas-Fort Worth (AA hub), Atlanta (DL hub) to name a few. For crying out...

Valid point. You could also say much the same about Calgary-Tokyo flights. At least by connecting in YVR you've covered part of the westbound journey. A few times we've flown to Europe via YVR (on Air France and KLM), which of course only makes the eastbound flight even longer. But these were...

The reason I want to see this line redesigned is not just the safety factor, although the ongoing accidents help make my case. Having gates, bollards and signal priority (all of which the Capital Line has) will help make this line what it is supposed to be--a rapid transit service that convinces...

Edmonton is hardly alone. The ongoing disaster along Eglinton Avenue in Toronto is a case in point. https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/goldstein-torontos-white-elephant-lrt-a-warning-to-cities-across-canada And Ottawa has had many of the same issues with its deeply flawed LRT. Maybe...

Exactly. YYC already has non-stop Heathrow service on Air Canada, which WestJet goes up against. I still think AC comes out ahead on that score given the breadth of AC's international connections and partners as well as the excellent Star Alliance terminal at LHR, which offers superb global...

What's really frustrating is that with WestJet's change in strategy last year under its new CEO, the airline cancelled its remaining orders for Dreamliners and instead stocked up on 737 Maxes. The 787 fleet was pulled out of Toronto and Vancouver and consolidated in Calgary. I would have loved...

Yes. In the good old days (before the pandemic and prior to United's pilot shortage that saw them pull much of their capacity out of Western Canada) there used to be many U.S. aircraft sleeping overnight at YEG, waiting to serve early-morning departures to their hubs.

A 6 a.m. flight would be great as well as an afternoon flight. The early AM flights are always best as they provide the greatest access to onward connections later in the morning at the hub airport.

That's why I've said I think a bid is a waste. Bring the Olympic Summer Games to Alberta instead. That will showcase the province like nothing else.

But it's usually a major event that provides the impetus to unlock significant funding from other levels of government. We've seen it time and time again: the 2010 Winter Olympics were the catalyst to get the Canada Line done in YVR (remember that the premier overruled the TransLink board and...

If we wholeheartedly support the flight and pack the planes, weekend flights will come with time. I get the point about weekend departures, but we invariably depart and return on weekdays (e.g. Thursday-Thursday) because it's usually cheaper, sometimes substantially so. My boss' attitude is...

In 2035 when the line finally opens.

But that's not what Mill Woods was promised when LRT was pledged to the area decades ago. They weren't promised a streetcar or tourist tram, they were promised light rail transit similar to what the northeast already had. The Valley Line is a massive downgrade. Remember, the whole logic of...

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The signs directing traffic from 100 Avenue to Stony Plain Road businesses always amuse me when I drive past them.